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Seven sisters and Tjala Tjukurpa (Honey Ant Dreaming) 2012

Artwork Seven sisters and Tjala Tjukurpa (Honey Ant Dreaming) this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint on linen, created in 2012-01-01
Accession No.
2012.274
Date Created
2012
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
196 x 196.5cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
synthetic polymer paint
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Credit Line
Purchased 2012 with funds from Margaret Mittelheuser AM and Cathryn Mittelheuser AM through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Paniny Mick and her daughters have collaborated here for the first time to depict two important stories. Tjala Tjukurpa tells of the ancestral honey ant whose tracks wind through the valley where Amata lies. The Seven Sisters Dreaming concerns the constellations Pleiades and Orion – the sisters are Pleiades and Orion is Nyiru, a man who lusts after the sisters and is forever chasing them.

The Seven Sisters Dreaming is embedded in the Amata landscape – in the rocks and trees and in images painted on cave walls.

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'Contemporary Australia: Women'

Apr 2012 - Jul 2012

Patrick Tjungurrayi / Pintupi/Kukatja people / Australia c.1940–2017 / Untitled (Ngaru) (detail) 2009 / Purchased 2020. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Estate of Patrick Tjungurrayi/Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency

‘North by North-West’

Feb 2023 - Sep 2024

Works by (l–r) Garry Namponan, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Craig Koomeeta and Jack Bell, installed at QAG for 'Great and Small', July 2025 / © The artists / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

'Great and Small'

Jun 2025 - May 2027

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